On this subject we read in the writings of the same prophet, (how that) God says: “For your blood of your lives will I require of all wildbeasts; and I will require it of the hand of man, and of his brother’s hand.”7486

Christ, on the contrary, when requested by a certain man to compose a strife between him and his brother about dividing an inheritance, refused His assistance, although in so honest a cause. Well, then, my Moses is better than your Christ, aiming as he did at the peace of brethren, and obviating their wrong. But of course the case must be different with Christ, for he is the Christ of the simply good and non-judicial god. “Who,” says he, “made me a judgeover you?”4641